According to the Associated Press, prison guards found Hernandez hanging in his jail cell in the at 3 a.m. this morning at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Massachusetts. He was brought to the hospital and pronounced dead within the hour.

Department of Correction spokesman Christopher Fallon stated Hernandez tied a bed sheet to his window and jammed his door to keep guards out.

Hernandez was just acquitted of the 2012 fatal shootings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado.